Friday, August 7, 2015

Time For Love - Melinda Curtis

Time For Love

Melinda Curtis

Harlequin Heartwarming, Aug 1 2015, $4.99

Harlequin Digital Sales Corp

Using college as a ticket to escape, teenager Kathy
Harris fled Harmony Valley, California. Away
only short time, a pregnancy sent Kathy back to this remote Sonoma Valley
hellhole. She became an alcoholic, which
cost her, the trust of her now five-year old son Zach. Now clean, she works for veterinarian Dr.
Gage Janero (see One
Perfect Year) who also hires “miracle worker” horse whisperer Dylan
O’Brian, son of an alcoholic, to work
with the animals.

Kathy’s brother Flynn (see Summer Kisses) worries
about his sister’s sobriety; so he hires Dylan, who needs the money, to keep
his sib sober but must never tell her.
Dylan knows good deeds sometimes lead to punishment like when he opens
his Redemption Ranch to help recovering alcoholics only to have his ex-wife use
that as a tool to gain custody of their eight-year old child Truman. As Kathy and Dylan fall in love, he needs to
tell her the truth, but doubts that will set him free in the way he wants.

The latest Harmony Valley romance (see Season of Change) is a
leisurely-paced family drama that looks closely at the impact of alcoholism on
loved ones. Working with seemingly
dangerous horses augments a heartwarming contemporary.